Customer Ratings & Reviews

The WD Blue 500GB Internal SSD SATA has significantly improved my computer's performance and storage capabilities. Its easy installation process and compatibility with my system made the upgrade hassle-free. The SSD's impressive read and write speeds have notably reduced my system's boot time and application loading times, providing a noticeable boost in overall speed and responsiveness. Its reliable performance, coupled with WD's reputation for quality, has assured me of a durable and efficient storage solution that has enhanced my computing experience.

By some co-incidence I happen to have 4 SSDs in my possession. (Crucial MX500 1TB, Samsung 850 Pro 500 GB, Sandisk Ultra 3D 250 GB). So I thought, perhaps it will be helpful for fellow Bestbuy customers to see how these perform in comparison. I have also done a test run on my install drive Crucial MX100 512 GB (MLC). I have attached the data and comparison chart, see for yourself. My machine have an SSD dock(connects to SATA3), the machine was idle while testing and I picked two separate runs, one with 32Gb and another with 16GB using CrystalDiskMark on windows 10, I averaged them out and put that in Chart. Actual runs data is also attached. Now it is possible that OS might decide to read/write something when the test is running and hence taking the SATA bandwidth, so I manually reviewed test runs and picked two, which were very close in numbers. Few observations, Fantastic read performance (top of the batch mostly), not good random write performance. This is a 2D TLC drive, its TBW rating is very good but warranty is on shorter side, MX500 has 5 Years and Samsung Pro is 10 Years. Sandisk in comparison performed bad, it could be due to various reason but I was expecting good performance from a 3D SSD. This test debunks that assumption. This being a 2D drive is no reason to not buy it. The new 3D model of this drive seems to improve on its shortcoming, i.e. random write performance, so you may want that as well. Considering that BesyBuy is selling the 860 Evo for same price, it is hard to recommend this SSD over that. But if you can get this somewhat cheaper, I'd say go for it. In conclusion, this WD drive has top notch read performance, not very good random writes. So I am going to put this in my Xbox as an external disk. Where I will write a game rarely (game install and updates) but read a lot of times(every game launch).

A great drive from a reliable company. No frills, no issues, no complaints. The price is good for overall size and performance for a SATA SSD. It had no problem approaching max bandwidth and easily sustained high 400MB/s on sequential 128K writes and low 500MB/s with 128K reads. Excellent choice for updating an HDD in a laptop or desktop. Not much else to say. A quality drive that performs as expected. Why are you still reading? Buy it already!

I’ve installed dozens of these in all makes and models of laptops for my co-workers. The WD drives either work like champs, or are dead out of the box (one out of probably 60 that I’ve bought over the years). When you want a rock solid drive that will improve the overall performance of every single laptop with an older spindle disk drive, this is the option to start with. RAM isn’t nearly as effective as a basic solid state hard disk, and this disk drive (all of the blue models) are excellent. There are faster drives and drives that handle more concurrent IOPs, but for the price the WD Blue series should be your go-to for any consumer level use. For an enterprise level system, or a server, or network storage devices you should spend the money to get enterprise grade NVME storage.

I used this WD - Blue PC SSD 500GB Internal SATA Solid State Drive to upgrade the HDD in my Toshiba Satellite S55. The first improvement was the speed of startup compared to the HDD. The HDD took around 25 seconds to get to the sign in screen for Windows 10. While the WD Blue SSD cut that time down to around 12 seconds with no changes made. I tried transferring a couple of files from an external hdd via USB 3.0, first file was 3.4gb in size and took 36.7 seconds while the second file was 2.28gb and took 27.5 seconds. I then ran a Glary Utilities 1 click maintenance scan and while I didn't time it with the HDD I would say that the scan took about half the time with the WD Blue SSD! The second improvement was in the lack of noise compared to a standard spinning HDD! Although this is 512gb SSD replaced a 1TD HDD I feel the performance improvement makes up for the loss of storage space.

Pretty reliable drive as I purchased a few of them and has not let me down thus far. Faster and efficient. Pleasure to use after upgrading from HDD.

Good value drive!!! Easy to use, good speed and small size!!!

Advantages: more speed, less noise, less heat, more reliable, more battery time (for laptops) and now at lower prices Disadvantages: none

I purchased this solid state drive when my old hard drive died. It was a pretty good price for a 500 GB hard drive. About the same as I would have paid elsewhere. It has been reliable so far and has made my computer operate much faster.

I bought this to use it for the operating system files (basically the C drive) in a Windows 10 computer from 2014 (it was Windows 8.x and I upgraded it to Windows 10 later on). Originally the C drive was on a hard disk and the machine was pretty loud due to noise from the HDD. After switching to using this SSD, the PC is much quieter and starts up and shuts down fast as expected. No issues in the computer and everything running off that drive feels smoother than ever. Setup including installation into the PC and drive formatting was straightforward (just follow guidance from Microsoft and make sure you have what you need for the process), though it should be noted that this product does not include any SATA cables so you will need to buy those separately if you don't have any spares.

Excellent product, very fast and big size, looks great !!!

I like this ssd it's fast it has improved my 2010 macbook pro's performance from it's old factory hdd, needed more space & better performance, installed in a minute. Got it on sale. so its been great, would def. buy again.

Upgraded my laptop’s drive with this ssd and made a world of a difference with boot time and over all use. If you haven’t upgraded to ssd, here’s your sign that it’s time!

This a fantastic low cost product. i installed it on an old laptop using a regular hard drive and it gave it a second life. Once you go SSD you don't go back. SSD drives are simply amazing, they just make everything faster. I get frustrated using a regular hard drive on any device, In my opinion regular hard drives should be banned. SSD should be the industry standard and regular drives need to be phased out. this SSD is quick and boot times are amazing, its like u just blink and your laptop is on the home screen , ready to go without the annoying wait time. All SSD's are really quick and its very hard for me to know how to judge it's speed. its like trying to determine which formula 1 car is the fastest. really recommend this product.

Inexpensive and fast, and priced great! Not as fast as an M2 drive, but easier to swap in and out of PCs if needed, and price is hard to beat.

I installed one of these drives in a 10 year old Gateway Desktop (SX2803) and another in a Lenovo laptop. In both cases the improvement in speed and performance was remarkable. Like a new upgrade for less than $60. I did have some quirky problems with the cloning. I eventually got both my desktop HDD and the partitioned laptop HDD to be successfully cloned to the SSD but each process had its own quirks. In the end I needed to use both the Western Digital Acronis TrueImage program and the AOMEI Backupper program both which can be downloaded from their respective websites at no cost. 1) Desktop: clone larger 1TB HDD to a smaller 500GB SDD - The Acronis program would not clone the larger drive to the smaller drive even though the spaced used on the larger drive was much smaller than the smaller drive (240 GB vs. 500 GB). The AOMEI program had no problem doing this and was very easy to use with my non-partitioned HDD. Took about 2 hours to clone. 2) Laptop; clone a partitioned HDD (5 partitions!) to the SSD - the AOMEI program would not do this directly. I tried to copy each partition separately but apparently that did not include the boot sector so the cloned drive was unable to boot up the laptop. Perhaps there is a way to create a bootable drive and then copy the partitions but I'm not sure. In any case the Acronis program handled this cloning task without any problem since both the HDD and SSD were the same size. The only problem with the Acronis program is that it is very slow to get going. Each step of the cloning process, would take 4 or 5 minutes to step through before actually starting the actual cloning. But it worked! I believe I also had to use the Acronis program to initialize the SSD before I cloned it with the AOMEI program...go figure. I used the GPT format for the laptop SSD since the laptop HDD was GPT. I used the MBR format for the desktop SSD since the desktop HDD was MBR. I could not see how to initialize the SSD's with the AOMEI program.

THE DRIVE IS QUICK AND QUIET. BOOTS FAST AND IS VERY RESPONSIVE IN FETCHING AND STORING FILES. A GREAT VALUE.

Nothing need be said except reliable and fast. Bought it to repair an 2nd extra laptop. Improved that laptop to be almost as good as my regular laptop.

Used to replace a 3.5" spinning disk. Major performance increase. Night/Day. Very please with speed compared to old hard drive.

I put this in a desktop computer I put together a few years ago, replacing two 15 year old hard drives. It transformed it. From 2 minutes to fully boot up to 30 seconds, and no indexing of the hard drives for several minutes after. Plus less noise and vibration from spinning hard drives. Every operation has sped up. The software to transfer from the old drive is easy to use. I have been using WD drives for 30 years without problems, I expect this to hold up as well.